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(Some Guy)   If you're still breastfeeding when you're 14 years old, relax -- it won't give you asthma   (pediatrics.aappublications.org) divider line
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1369 clicks; posted to Fandom » on 07 Apr 2006 at 6:50 PM (17 years ago)   |   Favorite    |   share:  Share on Twitter share via Email Share on Facebook



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pigeonstopper
2006-04-07 3:25:25 PM  
Phew.
 
Civil_War2_Time
2006-04-07 3:26:12 PM  
Also, make sure the curtains are not see-thru.
 
DarthBrooks
2006-04-07 3:31:25 PM  
They're only researching breastfeeding *moms*, right?

/sexist bastids.
 
aimtastic [TotalFark]
2006-04-07 3:36:41 PM  
I have a scary image of an 18 year old guy lifting mom's shirt for a squirt in his morning coffee.
 
lima beans
2006-04-07 3:42:43 PM  
This makes me farking ill.
How dare you greenlight this article with this headline?
 
mutt
2006-04-07 3:43:41 PM  
Actually, if you RTFA, the breastfeeding stopped at the normal age and they monitored the kids up until they turned 14.
 
nightbreed
2006-04-07 3:44:06 PM  
I wonder how many people will actually read the article and understand just why the headline is funny...
 
brap [TotalFark]
2006-04-07 3:44:29 PM  
[image from myimagebuddy.com too old to be available]

Nothing to see here folks, move along.
 
lima beans
2006-04-07 3:48:07 PM  
People won't read it, they will assume, this is fark.
 
brap [TotalFark]
2006-04-07 4:00:26 PM  
Cue the people assuming people won't read the article in negative one, negative two, negative...

/Nobody comes to my parties anymore now that I've gotten all "Meta."
 
TommyymmoT
2006-04-07 4:34:50 PM  
I think that would be a tad awkward in the school cafeteria.

/I can't understand why nobody ever wants to trade lunches with me.
 
Sensei Can You See [TotalFark]
2006-04-07 5:41:00 PM  
nightbreed: I wonder how many people will actually read the article and understand just why the headline is funny...

submitter here: Yes, my submitted headline deliberately misunderstands their badly written headline.

Query: So what?
 
lima beans
2006-04-07 6:32:30 PM  
The CraneMeister: Query: So what?


Actually because it is blatantly anti breastfeeding. There are a bunch of people who will walk around for days, nay, weeks with this as their only thought of breastfeeding.
It sends a bad message.
 
DisneyOnIce
2006-04-07 6:37:16 PM  
When I was a kid, I was breastfed by my father. My mother wouldn't do it - she said she liked me as a friend.


/RIP Rodney Dangerfield
 
InflatableJesus
2006-04-07 6:43:58 PM  
lima beans: People won't read it, they will assume, this is fark.

That's pretty presumptuous of you, isn't it?
 
lima beans
2006-04-07 6:51:27 PM  
InflatableJesus: That's pretty presumptuous of you, isn't it?


Yes, it is.
I have seen a few of these kinds of threads, and it is never pretty.
 
JB-NoHo
2006-04-07 6:56:13 PM  
RTFA, and I get the point of it. Still think the headline is hilarious, although I now need inner-eye bleach.

Hey, if you're still breastfeeding at 14, asthma is the least of your problems. Or maybe not. I guess it all depends on what your mom looks like.

Wasn't there a sketch on Little Britain along these lines?

[image from images.rottentomatoes.com too old to be available]

/window seat, please
 
Extanium
2006-04-07 7:14:31 PM  
aimtastic
Care to post that image?
 
Sensei Can You See [TotalFark]
2006-04-07 7:28:44 PM  
lima beans: There are a bunch of people who will walk around for days, nay, weeks with this as their only thought of breastfeeding.
It sends a bad message.

I'd like to hope people don't make important decisions based on Fark headlines.
 
lima beans
2006-04-07 7:46:40 PM  
The CraneMeister: I'd like to hope people don't make important decisions based on Fark headlines.


I would too.
 
InflatableJesus
2006-04-07 7:51:24 PM  
lima beans: Yes, it is.
I have seen a few of these kinds of threads, and it is never pretty.

I know, I know. I just found it funny that you, as a FARKer, were assuming other FARKers would assume something.

It doesn't necessarily mean that's an invalid assumption, though.
 
joesmough
2006-04-07 8:10:06 PM  
For a second there, I read that article with anticipation that there was in fact, testing of 14 year old breast feeding.

There was no mention, and as such I am dissapointed in not having the opportunity to become offended.

Bah
 
DenisBergkamp
2006-04-07 9:42:00 PM  
lucky jerks, I wasn't getting boobie from older women at the age of 14...

/I kid, I RTFA.
 
Tirion529
2006-04-07 9:56:48 PM  
Honestly... I wouldn't have been suprized if the headline was correct. There have been some really touchy feely people who've breastfed their kids for way longer than they should have... It's just kinda freaky when the kids -ask- for a drink...

/shudders
//was breast-fed
 
donmateo
2006-04-07 10:13:39 PM  
WTF?
 
mmagdalene
2006-04-07 11:13:11 PM  
The study surveyed mothers who *reported* breastfeeding for 4 months, and doesn't mention whether their baby was breastfed exclusively or for how much longer, if at all. Very poorly designed study, which, unsurprisingly, contradicts many others conducted by the American Academy of Pediatrics, the World Health Organization, etc. all of whom recommend breastfeeding for at least a year. The positive effects are often cumulative...so the longer the better (within reason). :)
 
JB-NoHo
2006-04-08 4:44:22 AM  
BTW, shouldn't this have gotten the img.fark.net tag?
 
ekdikeo4
2006-04-08 7:42:01 AM  
lima beans: Actually because it is blatantly anti breastfeeding. There are a bunch of people who will walk around for days, nay, weeks with this as their only thought of breastfeeding.
It sends a bad message.

I realise I'm not on TF anymore (thanks to being broke), but i think it was a requirement to be able to see how badly worded "news" articles could be twisted into things like this.

It's the fault of the poorly educated writers and copy editors.
 
strangeluck
2006-04-08 3:52:40 PM  
This was a SNL skit also, if anyone else remembers.
 
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